catarrh

Palmieri died of “bronchial catarrh” in Naples in 1896, at age 89, shortly after holding a last lecture on the moon’s influence on eruptions—a subject that is still studied today.

In another, he referred to Welsh signage in supermarkets as "incomprehensible" and described it as "a dead language that sounds uncannily like someone with bad catarrh clearing his throat".

In earlier flu epidemics, the disease was described as the “Russian illness” in Germany and Italy, and “Chinese catarrh” in Russia.

We should suppose in time of general catarrh, the whole empire of Japan would be covered with bits of paper blowing about.

Though it was summer and the leaves heavy on the trees, people went about the streets coughing as if it were the catarrh season.